[Voterescue] One-Party Texas Counties??! SoS has some'splainin' to do!
Vickie Karp
karp at mail.com
Fri Mar 7 00:19:03 CST 2008
Thank you David for elaborating on this. Very helpful. Amazing the
things we are learning about Texas politics in the wake of this primary
election! Vickie
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Van Os"
To: DARogers at aol.com, karen.renick at grandecom.net,
voterescue at voterescue.org
Subject: Re: [Voterescue] One-Party Texas Counties??! SoS has
some'splainin' to do!
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 22:51:41 -0600
Armstong, Hansford, and Roberts are the 3 counties in Texas that as of
now don't have Democratic county chairs. They are all in the upper
Panhandle. So they didn't have Democratic primaries because there was
nobody to hold one. In general elections the Democratic vote typically
ranges from about 12% to about 22% in those counties. (As of 2006 there
were about 7 or 8 counties that didn't have Democratic county chairs, but
the palpable changing of the tide has led Democrats to come out in
several of them and volunteer to serve as county chairs and organize a
local Democratic party. For example, there is now a Democratic county
chair in Ochiltree county for the first time in about 15 years,
and Ochiltree County held a Democratic primary this year for the first
time since then.) There is an even greater number of rural West Texas and
rural South Texas counties that don't have Republican county chairs, with
some of them being Democratic counties in national and statewide
elections and others being Republican counties in national and statewide
elections. To explain more, an interesting quirk about rural Texas is
that, outside of South Texas, in both eastern and western rural counties,
there are quite a few counties where the last top-ticket Democrat that
carried them was Jimmy Carter in 1976, but where the offices of county
government are still held 100% by Democrats just like they have been ever
since Reconstruction ended in 1877. It is just long, deep tradition. In
county government offices, everybody runs in the Democratic primary and
the elections are decided in the Democratic primary - even though the
majority of the voters are Republican voters for the purposes of
everything above the level of county government. But in most rural South
Texas counties, the huge majority of voters are simply Democrats period,
for all purposes, and there is nobody to run as a Republican because no
Republican could possibly get elected to anything. David Van Os
----- Original Message ----- From: DARogers at aol.comTo:
karen.renick at grandecom.net ; voterescue at voterescue.orgSent: Thursday,
March 06, 2008 10:48 AMSubject: Re: [Voterescue] One-Party Texas
Counties??! SoS has some'splainin' to do!
This is unsurprising.
There are 254 counties in Texas. Many of them are sparsely
populated. A number of them have no county chairmen (particularly on
the Republican side). With no county chairman, there is no one to
organize or run a primary.
Perversely, some of the counties with no Republican chairmen
consistently go Republican at the top of the ticket in November, but
all the local officials are Democrats.
David Rogers
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In a message dated 3/6/08 10:30:11 AM, karen.renick at grandecom.net
writes:
Thank you, Richard Hayes Phillips!!!
We are hoping to have Dr. Phillips on VoteRescue Radio this Sunday,
March 9, which airs Sundays 2-4 pm CST on www.wtprn.com. We'll also
be covering our hugely successful Citizen Exit Polls (CEPs) here in
Texas and speaking with Victoria Parks and Marj Creech about theirs
in Ohio. Tune-in to learn how you can do the same in your state! CEPs
are the first big step in reclaiming OUR elections! ~ Karen & Vickie
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D.
March 5, 2008
Didn’t anybody notice this?
It is now 24 hours after the polls closed in Texas. In 21 counties,
with 100% of precincts reporting, nobody voted in the Republican
presidential primary. In three counties, with 100% of precincts
reporting, nobody voted in the Democratic presidential primary.
In the 21 counties with no Republican voters, there were 87,919
registered voters, and 36,239 ballots cast, all of them Democratic.
In the three counties with no Democratic voters, there were 5,212
registered voters, and 1,865 ballots cast, all of them Republican.
In Maverick County, all 9,661 ballots cast were Democratic. In
Hansford County, all 1,235 ballots cast were Republican.
ONE-PARTY TEXAS COUNTIES, PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY, 2008
County Registered Republican Democratic
Voters Votes Votes
Armstrong 1404 369 0
Borden 432 0 139
Brooks 6385 0 3185
Cottle 1230 0 471
Crockett 2654 0 1166
Culberson 1959 0 526
Dickens 1410 0 612
Duval 9331 0 5053
Foard 1043 0 432
Hall 2110 0 813
Hansford 3101 1235 0
Hardeman 2969 0 1086
Hudspeth 1557 0 476
Kent 665 0 250
La Salle 4071 0 1392
Loving 116 0 22
Maverick 26224 0 9661
Reeves 6337 0 2228
Roberts 707 261 0
Stonewall 1087 0 483
Throckmorton 1175 0 513
Upton 2139 0 823
Zapata 7148 0 3190
Zavala 7877 0 3718
But don’t take my word for it. See for yourself.
http://enr.sos.state.tx.us/enr/mar04_135_race0.htm
http://enr.sos.state.tx.us/enr/mar04_136_race0.htm
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/state/#TX
Election officials in the State of Texas have some explaining to do.
Richard Hayes Phillips is the author of the definitive book on the
2004 presidential election in Ohio – “Witness to a Crime: A
Citizens’ Audit of an American Election.” For more information:
richardhayesphillips at yahoo.com
David Rogers
(512) 923-6188
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